Down she goes

Store demolished

The entertainment retailer vacated the 40,000-square-foot building at Wolflin Avenue and South Georgia Street in 2006, moving operations across Georgia to a new 26,000-square-foot store.

Weingarten Realty Investors, the owner of Wolflin Village, opted to tear down the empty building to make room for a new retail site. Weingarten is considering either selling the corner or developing a site for retail or restaurant business, a leasing director said in mid-January.

The building has long been a corner anchor for Wolflin Village, first housing a locally owned department store. Colbert's opened its Harry Holland store there in 1975 to sell an expanded line of menswear, linens children's clothing and gifts.

Colbert's filed bankruptcy in 1988, and its stores closed. Hastings occupied the building from 1991 to 2006.